Fried green tomatoes is not just a book by Fanny Flagg(also a movie).A ripe tomatoe is a wasted green tomatoe.Slice the green tomatoe,dip it in cornmeal, and fry it.
Alabama Scramble is a dish my Mother cooks.You chop up green tomatoes,potatoes,summer squash,okra,onions,ect.,dip in meal,and
fry.
Pickled green tomatoes with some onions and peppers added for flavor.

I like that movie

fried green tomatoes, chow chow, i have to get home and get that done

OK....

I just harvested ALL of the rest of my tomatoes today, in case of severe frost, which we haven't had yet, luckily. Weather is warm for October, and hopefully will last through to Hallowe'en night when I will take my daughter out to the town, and then back here for the pumpkin trail (really scary in the woods in our little community. Hotdogs and fireworks follow).

I had originally estimated about 75 pounds of tomatoes. Looks, now, more like 150 pounds of green tomatoes and about 50 pounds of ripening. Days are too short and cool for them to ripen on the vine further, so had to get them in.

I REALLY need some recipes, as I don't want to make 150 pounds worth of condiments. I suppose I could do that and sell the rest in the summer market, but I like variety.

So, if anyone has a recipe I could try, anything that could be canned or frozen or fermented or even dried (I don't know how well green tomatoes dry)... please let me know.

I have a recipe here, that was my grandmothers from Manitoba. It includes cloves, which I am not fond of too much, but my uncle, her son, loves the recipe, so I will make a bunch of that and send it to him in Winnipeg. He hasn't had those since he was young. He photocopied all of her and her mother's recipes for me, so I have some old recipes from the farm.

Love Apples

6 quarts whole green tomatoes (he said each no larger than easily cupped in one hand)
3 pounds white sugar (i usually use organic raw cane or rapadura, but will change the colour to darker... your choice)
1 quart vinegar (white, but I usually use raw organic apple cider vinegar, again darkens the final colour)
1 stick cinnamon
a few whole cloves

Peel tomatoes thinly and boil until tender in salted water.
Lay out on a platter to cool and drain.
Stick a whole clove in each one.
Make syrup - let come to a boil and skim, place tomatoes in crock or large bowl.
Pour hot syrup over tomatoes and let stand two more days then boil in syrup for a short time and place carefully in jars and seal.

Do not boil too long in salt water at first or later in syrup as tomatoes become soft and crush easily.

* sterilize jars, place filled jars with seal in hot water bath (no specific time was given... i will probably cook for 20 minutes)

I have a really, really, really good recipe for relish / salsa that is completely sugar-free (except, of course, for the natural sugars in the fruit and vegetables). If anyone would like me to write this recipe I will. I think it is really good, likely, for anyone who is diabetic. Just let me know.

On New Year's Day we had fried green tomatoes (store bought) to go with our turnip greens and black-eyed peas.We also had fried summer squash,fried okra,etc. and it was GOOD!Heart attack or stroke on a plate ,but GOOD!

Well
Countryboy!
You're
still
here...
and,
...well!

Glad you're alive, brother Countryboy!

edit to add: holy cow! WATCH OUT FOR THOSE BLACK-EYED PEAS, countryboy?

Check out this website:

Look at black-eyed-peas. This is major wept-on and (sittin' on) di fence.

http://aboutfacts.net/Else34.htm

Well, if I godda go I'll go happy.Seems like everything I like is bad for me!